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Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other avant-garde artists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the algebra of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde.[citation needed] His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María Félix, Édith Piaf (whom he cast in one of his one-act plays entitled Le Bel Indifferent in 1940), and Raymond Radiguet.
His work was played out in the theatrical world of the Grands Theatres, the Boulevards and beyond during the Parisian epoque he both lived through and helped define and create. His versatile, unconventional approach and enormous output brought him international acclaim.
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Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Daedalus
Jean Cocteau
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Morceaux de Cannes
A Night at the Opera
Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
The Image Book
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma
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Steel Cathedrals
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
In This Atrocious Garden
Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
The Infernal Machine
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
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In Search of Marcel Proust
Testament of Orpheus
America as Seen by a Frenchman